WhatsApp’s new update just made communication a one-way street

You’ll want to be admin for all your groups. Or not.

WhatsApp doesn’t seem to show any signs of retiring its constant attempt to upgrade the instant messaging service, making it more user-friendly for its 1.5 billion monthly active global users. As its most recent move, the Facebook-owned company introduced a new feature for groups. This feature will let groups create a one-way broadcast communication stream wherein the admins or owners of the group will be the only ones capable of sending messages.

WhatsApp’s most recent blog post, justified the messaging app’s decision to debut this latest group feature. “One way people use groups is to receive important announcements and information, including parents and teachers at schools, community centers and non-profit organizations.” According to WhatsApp, rolling out this new group feature would help group admins streamline their communications better.

If you want to be able to access this new feature, all you need to do is open Group Info on WhatsApp, tap on Group Settings, choose the Send Messages option and then select ‘Only Admins.’ The new feature will make one-way communications a lot easier, and help group admins ensure that there aren’t any tangential conversations. This way, a single person will control the entire stream. The feature is set to roll out for users across the globe.

Apart from this revolutionary WhatsApp upgrade that the instant messaging service is bringing to its platform, it has introduced a number of other new group features over the past couple of months that could make using the app a lot less complicated.